I Am Legend

I Am Legend is the latest Hollywood blockbuster starring Will Smith, enabling Will Smith to save the world again.

Will Smith CLEARLY loves saving the world, as he has done it no less than eight times now:

1) Independence Day - Will Smith saves the world from aliens.
2) Men In Black - Will Smith saves the world from... aliens again.
3) Men In Black II - AGAIN with the aliens. F**k.
4) Wild Wild West - Will Smith saves the world from a giant robot spider thingy.
5) Enemy Of The State - Will Smith saves the world from evil spies and shit.
6) I, Robot - Will Smith saves the world from homicidal robots.
7) Hitch - Will Smith saves the world from unromantic men.
8) I Am Legend - Saving the world again.

This time around, Will plays a scientist, who miraculously survives a disease (created by Emma Thompson) which has wiped out the entire world. Except him of course.

Will spends most of the movie walking around with his lovable dog Sam, until he makes a shocking discovery...

He is not alone.

It's your typical special effects-laden thrill ride, as Will desperately tries to develop a cure that could potentially.. well, save the world. Based on a graphic novel, and actually a remake of an older film starring Charlton Heston, many people have complained about the plot changes and the fact that it's received the "Hollywood Treatment". The graphic novel, which had a strong social statement, has made way for a more traditional good versus evil story which does not explore the deeper messages which the older movie tried to convey.

Nevertheless, it's an entertaining way of spending 90 minutes, although there were certainly one or two hairy moments thrown in. (There is one disturbing scene that will leave you feeling slightly depressed, as if someone has taken your last Rolo. And then slept with your wife.)

It's not a film for little kids, although annoyingly enough there WERE some children at the cinema we attended. Although they soon left in protest as I kept throwing them with popcorn and bits of debris I found on the ground.

Which is a sad indictment on the state of the cinema, I should never have been allowed to source so much debris, why was it so filthy?

Anyhoo, give it a watch, it's worth a night out out.



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